Online Republicis a global travel group specialising in cruise, car rental and motorhome travel bookings. Our angle is simple. Give customers better value, better advice and better service than they can find anywhere else, on or offline.

Cruises

We operate Australasia’s most trusted cruise brand according to TrustPilot, and we’re one of the biggest bookers of cruise trips.

7,500,000+

Motorhome Rental

130,000+

motorhome roadtrips booked

A short history of our Republic

2004

2005

2008

2011

2013

2015

2016

2004

2004. The year a new republic is born.

In mid 2004, brothers Paul and Mike Ballantyne hatch an idea around taking niche marketing to the travel sector. They call the company iMall Brands and their first site specialising in car rental goes live in late 2004.

2005

With a successful car rental business building and a small team growing, the decision is made to create a motorhome rental booking website. This launches in late 2005.

2008

Riding the wave of growing cruise popularity in Australasia, we open our first cruise site. Cruisesalefinder.co.nz goes live in New Zealand in December 2008. A month later we launch cruisesalefinder.com.au into the Australian cruise market.

2011

It’s time for a name everyone can pronounce and something we actually like. We re-brand from iMall Brands to Online Republic.

2013

With a growing number of highly talented e-commerce practitioners on board, we decide to share the love and launch Search Republic – a world class digital marketing consultancy.

2015

PredictHQ beta launches. This is our new global business intelligence platform that analyses events happening all over the world, then forecasts how they might affect your business. It’s built on aggregated global scheduled and real-time data which is standardised, enriched and ranked, relevant to the needs of your business.

2016

Online Republic Group is acquired by Australasia’s leading OTA, Webjet. Onwards and upwards!

We’re Hiring

And here’s four reasons why you might be interested in joining us.

We're growing.

There are 150 of us and we’re always looking to add talented team players. Are you ready for your next challenge?

We're global.

Our business operates in 150 car rental markets, 25 motorhome countries and Australia and New Zealand for cruises.

We plan big.

We plan to grow our current categories quickly, and are in the process of launching new technologies.

We make it fun.

We have an awesome culture in our 4 global offices. Great people are hard to find so we work hard to keep them.

Our Key Brands

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About us

Online Republic is a global travel e-commerce group operating four key divisions; online bookings of rental cars, motorhomes and cruises and more recently added a search engine optimisation and digital marketing consultancy business to the stable.